Aglossary (fromAncient Greek:γλῶσσα,glossa; language, speech, wording), also known as avocabulary orclavis, is an alphabetical list ofterms in a particulardomain of knowledge with thedefinitions for those terms.[citation needed] Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of abook and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are most commonly associated withnon-fiction books, in some cases,fiction novels sometimes include a glossary for unfamiliar terms.
A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language orglossed bysynonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language.
In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations ofconcepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion ofontology. Automatic methods have been also provided that transform a glossary into an ontology[1] or a computational lexicon.[2]
The intelligence law glossary provides a description of the key terms in intelligence law.
Acore glossary is a simple glossary orexplanatory dictionary that enables definition of other concepts, especially for newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a small working vocabulary and definitions for important or frequently encountered concepts, usually including idioms or metaphors useful in a culture.
Computational approaches to the automated extraction of glossaries from corpora[3] or the Web[4][5] have been developed in the recent years[timeframe?]. These methods typically start from domainterminology and extract one or more glosses for each term of interest. Glosses can then be analyzed to extracthypernyms of the defined term and other lexical and semantic relations.
Hessels, John Henry (1911)."Gloss, Glossary" . InChisholm, Hugh (ed.).Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–128. This provides a detailed description of the development of glossaries in classical languages.
